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Jan Sjostrom has covered culture for the Palm Beach Daily News since 1991. Before that she was a reporter for community newspapers in Minneapolis and an editor and reporter for community newspapers in South Florida. She graduated from the University of Minnesota, where she studied art history and journalism.

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Longtime Worth Avenue art dealer Irving Luntz died Nov. 28, 2017, at his home in Palm Beach. He was 88. Mr. Luntz opened Irving Galleries in 1974 in Palm Beach, focusing on top-quality modern master and contemporary art. For 37 years, he reigned as one of the avenue’s canniest and most colorful businessmen, retiring in 2011, when he&nbsp...

Up Markets’ update on its progress in securing a tenant for the shuttered Royal Poinciana Playhouse at Tuesday’s Town Council meeting produced no longed-for announcement. Development project manager Alexandra Patterson drew the council’s attention to the company’s success in recruiting tenants for the refurbished Royal...

Billy and Me has good bones. But it owes its entertainment value in large measure to the powerful performances of Nicholas Richberg as Tennessee Williams and Tom Wahl as William Inge, as well as William Hayes’ sensitive direction. The play, which is drama critic Terry Teachout’s second, is premiering at Palm Beach Dramaworks in...

Terry Teachout was in his 50s and well-established as an arts journalist when his first play, Satchmo at the Waldorf, astonished him by becoming a runaway success. “I had no serious expectation that it would go anywhere,” he said. The one-man show about jazz virtuoso Louis Armstrong has had 15 productions since it premiered...

Twelve years ago, Terry Teachout walked into a Baltimore restaurant and fell in love. At 49, he’d given up on love, as had Hilary, the woman he met that night and married two years later. “We had accepted that we would spend the rest of our lives alone and suddenly, we were together,” said Teachout, whose play&nbsp...

Beth Rudin DeWoody played hostess to about 525 guests Dec. 1 for the eagerly awaited opening of The Bunker, her 20,000-square-foot private collector space in West Palm Beach. SHINY SHOTS: DeWoody private collector space opening Refreshments were served in a big tent outside the building, where the performers from the contemporary art collective...

Famed jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performed for a full house Thursday at Palm Beach Day Academy’s upper campus in Palm Beach. The concert preceded the group’s performance Thursday night at the Kravis Center. The campus’ entire student body attended, as did second-graders from the...

The arts put money in our pockets. That’s the message behind a new economic impact study commissioned by the Cultural Council of Palm Beach County. The Americans for the Arts study, which used 2015 figures from 79 nonprofit Palm Beach County cultural groups and audience surveys, found that spending by the county’s cultural organizations...

Winston Churchill was 40 in 1915 when he resigned in disgrace as Britain’s First Lord of the Admiralty after the failure of his disastrous attack on Gallipoli. He took up painting to relieve his boredom and depression. Unlike the confidence he exuded in his public life, he approached painting with trepidation. He was staring at...

Little Shop of Horrors is a peculiar blend — part horror story, part comedy, part morality tale. It’s a difficult balance to maintain and MNM Productions does it reasonably well in its determinedly comic version at the Kravis Center’s Rinker Playhouse. The story follows the misadventures of Seymour, a nerdy employee at his...

Would you believe that Andy Warhol was a worker bee? So says Jane Holzer, who knew the late celebrity artist well. Holzer and Eric Shiner, former director the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, shared stories about the artist Friday during a by-invitation Sotheby’s season-opening event at Holzer’s Palm Beach home. Shiner,...